Anouk presents Birds, the Netherlands' new Eurovision song

DutchNews.nl, Monday 11 March 2013

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The Dutch entry for this year's Eurovision Song Contest is Birds by Anouk, a song first performed in 2011 but never included on a record.

Anouk said last year she wanted to represent the Netherlands in the song contest with a self-penned song, bypassing the traditional domestic talent contest. Tros television, which traditionally stages the event, eventually agreed.

The popular rock singer said she considers Birds to be a beautiful song, adding that 'there will doubtless be people who think its rubbish, but I am ready for them'.

The semi-final festival takes place in Malmö, Sweden on May 14. The final is on May 18. The Netherlands has failed to qualify for the finals of the Eurovision song contest for eight years in succession.

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Anouk - Birds | Live @ Wisseloord Studios, March 11th 2013

Lyrics "Birds"

Isolated from the outside

Clouds have taken all the light

I have no control

It seems my

Thoughts wander off

Of the time

When I tried to

Live life without you

Birds falling down the rooftops

Out of the sky like raindrops

No air

No pride

If being myself is what I do wrong

Then I would rather not be right

Hopes turned into fear

With my one wing

I can’t fly

With sunrise

Embrace my

Dreams tight

And that’s why

Birds falling down the rooftops

Out of the sky like raindrops

No air

No pride

Birds

To a place without fear with no moonlight

All I need are trees and flowers and some sunlight

When memories are being made and where the old one dies

Where love aint lost

Birds falling down the rooftops

Out of the sky like raindrops

Birds falling down the rooftops

Out of the sky like raindrops

No air

No pride

That’s why

Birds don’t fly 

Falling Birds & Death Fish (Water Cycle - New Mini Ice Age) - (“2011 and Beyond” - What you are seeing, and why) - Jan 16, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Text version)

The second thing the melting ice caps give you is about ecology. I'll give you this prediction in a moment. There is a Human 3D paradigm that says everything gets "used" and then goes away. But nature doesn't work that way, and our prediction is going to go against everything you have been told. I'm going to give you a parable and the prediction in a moment, but before that, I'm going to give you the explanation of the birds and the fish.

In the last few weeks, fish have been washing up dead in certain lakes by the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Birds have been falling from the sky. I'm going to make a statement way in advance of what science is going to tell you. All of it can be traced to the water cycle - all of it. It's always about the weather, a cycle of weather you've not seen before. Do you remember a few years ago when whales were beaching themselves? Did you notice that this attribute stopped? But while they were beaching themselves every year, many Human Beings were in fear, saying, "It's the end of the world. They're committing suicide."

The whales beached themselves because the magnetics of the earth shifted so greatly that their navigational system [the magnetite in their biology, which is their migration compass] steered them right into the land. The land didn't move; the magnetics did. Therefore, you might say their internal inherited migration map was flawed. The reason it's not happening now is because the calves, the generation beyond the one that beached themselves, figured it out and rewrote the maps. Nature [Gaia] does this. So the next generation didn't repeat it. Instead, it realigned itself to the migratory lay lines and now whales don't beach themselves nearly as often.

The magnetics of the planet continue to shift and the birds are unaware. Like the whales, many of the birds have migrated themselves right into a high place in the atmosphere, which pummeled them to death by freezing rain and hail. Then they fall from the sky. It's the weather cycle. Will they continue to do this? Some will, for awhile, and then they will figure it out and recalibrate. That's what nature does.

You might say, "Well, nature's way is severe." It is not severe. It is a positive learning system that allows generations of birds to be around next time. The few deaths allow for the many to continue their life cycle and their lineage on the earth.

I want you to analyze the fish that have washed up. Let science reveal this as well. I want you to analyze the fish. They have something in common. They're all juveniles. And why is that? What do you know about the water cycle? What do you know about cold water and the life cycle of certain fish and their habits of reproduction? I will tell you the layers of water are changing in temperature and that is going to change the life cycle of the oceans and lakes. The juvenile fish are the most susceptible to death by becoming too cold, especially the ones of the kind that washed up dead. By the tens of thousands, the cold killed them. It is the water cycle. Will it continue? For awhile, until they acclimate, until they recalibrate for the cold - and they will. Nature does that.